Abu Dhabi to help fund the Australian cyclone houses

SYDNEY- l' Emirate of Abu Dhabi Monday oil-rich donated $ 32 million in Queensland to protect the Australian State of the cyclones after a monster snowstorm that hit in February.

Yasi, the most powerful cyclone struck the Australia in a century, packed winds of 290 kilometres (181 km) per hour when he ran in Queensland, smashing buildings and trees and bringing power lines crashing to the ground.

The United Arab Emirates Minister of State Reem Al Hashimy, stated that she saw television coverage of destruction caused by the Yasi and weeks of unprecedented flooding that preceded the storm.

"What struck me particularly is the strength and resilience of the people of Queensland," she says, adding that images of Australians soft hand on their fellow was comforting.

"We want to support your effective attitude, your ability to pick yourself up and get with it," she told reporters in Brisbane.

Al Hashemi was in Australia as part of a delegation from the Gulf of Queensland on tour as part of a Government plan to stimulate trade and investment in the wake of natural disasters.

The Premier of Queensland Anna Bligh said that his Government would match the gift 10 shelter to protect each more than 500 people against the fierce winds, debris and storm surges created by worst cyclones of flight.

The Government came under pressure after that Yasi for taking too long to build cyclone shelters promised after the Cyclone devastated Larry Innisfail in 2006.

Sites for shelters, which will be used as multi-purpose facilities throughout the year, have not yet been selected but Bligh said that this new unwelcome currency meant construction could begin later this year.

"We will build shelters as quickly as possible," she said.

"This gift of Abu Dhabi is a chance for us to do something in two years which would have otherwise held for 20 years."

Yasi roars in the Australian coast in Mission Beach, between the towns of Innisfail and Cardwell, which binds in a heavily populated and tourism region near the great barrier reef in early February.

The storm, which had an eye measuring 35 kilometres wide, caused massive destruction, but the winds and rain caused no deaths or injuries.